Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonial: "Sweet Adeline". Helen Morgan et al in a not unusual musical production...
...prospective "United States of Europe," held to mark the emergence of "Uncle Arthur" as a figure of world significance-much as his colleague, tart-tongued Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden became an international personage last year in a single day at The Hague (TIME, Sept. 9, 1929 et ante...
...Council adopted the League Mandates Commission report censuring Great Britain for failure to take more effective steps to check the Palestine massacres of last year (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929 et seq.). This was the first instance in which a Great Power has ever submitted to direct censure from an organ of the League...
Intermittently from 1915 to 1920 a robot called Mike, then Fritz von Blitz the Kaiser's Hoodoo, then Percy the Mechanical Man, performed prodigies of senseless versatility in the U. S. funny-papers (New York Herald et al). Cartoonist Harry Cornel Greening equipped his creature with a row of buttons down the back which, when pushed, set Percy to his tasks. Only trouble-and chief source of comedy-was that, being brainless as well as tireless, Percy would keep on doing whatever he started until someone pushed another of his buttons. Thus, stoking a warship, when he had stoked...
...surface warmed by a tropic sun. Twice he has tried and failed at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to lower a mile-long pipe six feet in diameter into water nearly one-half mile deep. Both times, subsurface currents and pressures defeated him, sweeping away his costly apparatus (TIME, July 7 et ante). Last week, with 6,000 ft. of experimental pipe, he tried again at Matanzas, this time succeeded. Divers followed the pipe down offshore as far as they could, reported it safely in place. His patience thus rewarded, Professor Claude announced he would soon try again to lower a larger...